On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 17:42, Per Jessen wrote: > >installing packages designed for your system: if you need the latest > >Samba for your Red Hat Linux, then a package built for it from Samba.org > >is better than no package, whereas a package from SuSE might be a > >doubtful proposition. > > Correct. But I simply wouldn't bother - download the source tarball, > not the RPM.
You might want to rebuild the rpm but not doing package management is the easy path to doom. Its always easy to skip proper adminstration and management of any system, its almost always a bad idea to have done so, be it Linux, windows install-shield, whatever
